Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1887-12-30
RALEIGH'S BUDGET.
TIE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF TIE
STATE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION.
Arrangements for the Next Meeting
Accepting the Call-studsnts Row
A Fatal stabbing.
lsnecial ,elorrnm to the pIspatcb.l

meeting. which Will De nelu at MOIehc"u
| CITY next June. The assembly now has
n membership Of 1900 1t was decided
TO lev the cornerstone OF the Assembly
| Hall April %. That ceremony will be
witness d by several schools which Will
make an excursion to Morehead City.
Deputy-Sheriff Wilmington to. day
brought to the penitontisry from Greens
0oro' negro girl named Mary Hairston,
who is sentenced to one years imprlson-
ment for throwing stones at tram at
Greensboro. She is the first woman
ever arrested in the State for that
offence.
Rev. George s. Williams, of Nashville,
Tenn. this afternoon telegraphed the
congregation of the Raleigh Baptist
Tabernacle bis acceptance OF its unani-
nous call to the pastorate. He will he
here in q few days to take charge.
A few nights past there was an ARRAY
at Shaw University (colorcd), in this
city, between two students, I. j.
Streeter and Water Scott. Streeter's
brother took a hand. Scott seized
stick with which Streeter had attempted
TO strike him and struck Streeter on the
head. Last night Strceter died. 1t Is
claimed that his death was due to pneu-
monia and not to the blow given by
Scott.
Near Harrisburg, Cabarus county.
day before yesterday, a negro named
White shot and killed Green Johnston
(colored) with revolver.
Three men in Rutherford county
named Alexander, all brothers, set upon
a white man named Cox Robbins and
stabbed him fatally.
The fact that this has been n great
year for corn has had the effect, reve-
nue. official tells Lac, of increasing the
number OF registered distilleries in tins
district fully 80 per cent. Doubtless the
effect in the Western district has been
the same. There are about 800 regis
tered distillerics in this district The
| largest one has product OF only fifty
gallons q day and the next largest only
twenty. North Carolina leads all the
States in the number of liquor distille-
ries. This year the distiIlers are able to
get corn at from forty to forty-fiye cents
per bushcl, while last year 1t cost them
seventy five cents. The processes Of
distiilation are here in most cases so
/ crude that the disiillers manage to get
only two and half gallons OF whiskey
out of bushel OF corn, whereas IN the
/ places where better methods aJe IN use
! four gallons are obtained.
The dying year has been marked by
the greatest activity this State has ever
seen in the matter of railway building.
| The mileage built exceeds that in any
| former year, though the precise figures
cannot he obtained for a fortnight Work
| is in progress on thirteen roads. Seven
/ have been completed during the year.
/ These are the Wilson-Fayotteyille
"Short-cut ; theroad to RoXobcl, BERTHE
county that from 'loncuro to pittsboro' /;
from Statesyiile to Taylorsville; from
Wilmington 10 Conwayboro' from Ham
I ilton to Tarboro' from Warsaw to Gin
ton. The moment it can he obtained
/ the full statement viii be published. All
/ the new roads are standard gauge save
I the hamilton and Tarboro', which is Of
3S-inch guaSe.
The signs are that 1858 will be great
year for railway work. 1t viii then
really begin on at least three new roads,
and the early start viii enable great
show to be made. The number of con
victs on such work is far larger than
ever before, and must increase, as the
penitentiary is paid for such convicts
/ Tor majority OF them, and rs its APP
preparation is small las to utilize all pos
sible men, so rs to make both ends
meet. There are now less than 2JO con-
/ yicts in the prison proper, ont OF total
/ Of pretty nearly LOO They are at
work on five railways.
Efforts are being made to secure the
removal of the conyicts from the swamp
land turnpike and canals IN Hyde to
those lands in Carteret county. The
State Board of Education has not yet
acted in the matter.
The Supreme Court to-day resumed
/ the fling of decisions. 1t will close its
work for this term day alter tomorrow,
as the time by limitation expires January
I lst. 1t is thought there Will be about
/ 100 decisions.
In 1855 the State is making prepare
tons, it is evident. to surpass former re-
cords in the building Of manufactures,
particularly cotton-mills. Plans are On
foot for many of these, and healthy and
large development may be expected in
this direction.
The Newberne people are quite dis
pirited in regard TO the recent decision
OF the Supreme Court in the matter Of
the election on the question Of the $780,
( 600 subscription to the Wilmington,
Onslow and East Carolina railroad. The
/ Newberne people have been mainly in
strumental III securing an order for TN
election in Carteret on the issue Of bonds
to the same road They think the de
csion by the Supreme Court that the
Wilmington election was illegal will pat
quietus on the whole matter.
and that without the aid OF tho
Wilmington subscription the road can
not be gotten under way at all. 1t is
said in Wilmington that another election
will be held in conformity with the Su-
prcme Courts requirements, but the
Newberne people say there is little hope
that the result viii be favorable, as VIII
f IlluEkOl y ubN VI llt tNt VI ihhhlbS q
$3.50, 900 subscription to the Cape Fear
and Yadkin Valley railroad. There is
already a strong opposition to the former
measure in Craven county, and the vote,
it is declared, viii in AL likelihood be
unfayorable, especially since the vii
mington failure.
A report upon the navigable waters in
the great district composing Eastern
Carolina" consisting Of twenty-seven
counties, shows that there are 5000
miles Of inland navigation.
Mr.. Jackson Mitchell. a soldier in the
war with Mexico, died in this city last
night. He served in Captain W. J.
Clarke's company in the Twelfth United
States infantry. His age was seventy
one. He was also agallant soldier in the
late war;
1t is reported that Anthony Malloy
alias Mccormick, who last summer muir
dered Moses Garrett in New Hanover
county, has been captured in South
Carolina.
Roanoke and SOuthePn Railroad.
Especial telegram 70 the Dispatch.l
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